Get the latest Science News and Discoveries

A worm that lived half a billion years ago preferred turning right


Fossils of Spriggina floundersi provide the earliest evidence of animals favouring one side of the body over the other – a feature of nervous systems that we see in our own right- and left-handedness

None

Get the Android app

Or read this on New Scientist

Read more on:

Photo of worm

worm

Photo of turning

turning

Related news:

News photo

Mezcal “Worm” in a Bottle Mystery: DNA Testing Reveals a Surprise

News photo

Scientists 'reanimate' a worm that was frozen in Siberian permafrost for over 46,000 years

News photo

Meet a worm that can stretch like an accordion